While the recipe for the "gussy" sandwich (fried pickles, spinach, goat cheese and come-back sauce) is not included, the spirit of the book is such that readers should be willing to come up with a decent version of the gussy themselves.

Are Ridley Scott's falling petals, which he seems to like so much that he puts them in his films over and over again, anything more than a way to gussy up the triumph of oligarchy, corporate capital and globalisation?

Or you could do the equivalent and open your Washington Post, where destiny has been achieved: Fred Hiatt, the proprietor of America's Worst Opinion Page, has done what he does best, invite a mendacious lackwit to gussy up his surplus of dead tree-pulp to the detriment of his rapidly declining readership.

It also resulted in part from structural needs and, more, as the historical result of stripping away decoration from predecessors that tried to gussy up the modern large building with references to the more ancient grandeur of ziggurats and Gothic detail.